[durnygbur]

The bureaucrats one has to deal with as taxpayer, insuree, petent, or immigrant are different kind of bureaucrats from those holding high positions and advising to them. That's how one gets idea that they don't know what they're doing, they job is to push you away, hold you back. The second kind though... yes it takes enormous volume of cunningness, insight, non-public information to acquire and expand position of power.